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MENSWEAR BRANDS

Best Runway Show: Michael Bastian Spring 2012
The return of Basty, LeBron James sitting front row next to Stefano Tonchi, a James Dean theme, an infamous nip-slip, and Kanye West "All Of the Lights" bumping.
Pretty fabulous ingredients to a runway show. And as always, the clothes were spectacular. Huge fan of the blazers!

Best Lookbook: Riviera Club Spring 2011
It is amazing what this Santa Barbara crew can do with a pair of well-tailored chinos, a woven, and a washed out hoodie.
Implementing a concept for a lookbook that speaks to its core brand is essential. Riviera Club did just that via boats, booze, cars, and dirt bikes. Well played fellas.


Most Exciting Brand: Band of Outsiders
Scott Sternberg, former Hollywood Agent, is one for theatrics. His clothing line, Band of Outsiders wow'ed us with their West Side Story themed runway show at Pitti Uomo for spring 2012 (see above.)
When Band showed in New York for fall 2011, their show started with models mountain climbing down from the ceiling. If editors were not already happy enough, they had a cookie from Momofuku Milk Bar placed on their seat. Runway is not the end game for the American brand. Their polaroid-style lookbooks have become a major hit too, starring the likes of Andrew Garfield, Aziz Ansari, and Donald Glover to James Marden, Tom Felton and Rupert Grint.

Best New Designer: N. Hoolywood
N. Hoolywood was the surprise of New York Fashion Week for 2011. For their fall '11 show, monotone outerwear consumed the runway,
channeling 1930's mountaineers. Designer, Daisuke Obana followed up in spring 2012 showing at a vintage movie theater,
with models interacting in a movie title sequence (see above), most commonly used in the 1950's and 1960's.
Luckily for us, the collection is given the same amount of attention to detail as the runway shows they produce.

Best Catalogue: GANT
If you do not subscribe to GANT's hard-copy catalogue, I suggest you do yourself a favor and get on that.
Best catalogue in menswear hands down. Look forward to it coming to my mailbox every season. The editorial is outstanding
and timepiece advertisements are flawless. Their GANT Rugger imagery insert inside the book is phenomenal (see above.)

Most Innovative Brand: Junya Watanabe
Fair isle blazers, patch-work outerwear, tartan elbow bads, and a bunch of color. That is the recipe for the coolest Japanese brand on the planet.
 Their cult following consists of menswear fiends who understand fabrics and fit. Remember..."if you don't got fit, you don't got shit." Wear with confidence.

Best Designer: Dries Van Noten
"I think I tell enough about myself when I make my clothes and when I show them. I don’t need people to buy clothes for who I am;
 I prefer them to buy things that I create," states Dries Van Noten. The man has been doing it for years and continues to show
 his audience that style is timeless. More words of wisdom from the man himself, "I don’t like to create head-to-toe outfits.
 I prefer to make garments for people to wear in lots of different ways. It’s important that they can make the clothes their own and wear them in any way they want to express what they want to say about themselves." Amen.
Best Shoe Designer: Mark McNairy
Bucks, brogues, and saddle shoes, OH MY! The illest footwear designer on the planet, nicknamed McNasty is the king of the shoe game.
Badass should be his middle name. Flowers on top of camouflage? No problem. Bright color soles? Standard.

Best New Shoe Designer: Del Toro
Graduated from slippers to a jack of all trades. Perforated espadrilles, camouflage brogues, mantaray slippers are a few of Del Toro's latest creations.
It has been a busy past few months for the Miami based shoe brand. Their Art Basel presentation was the bomb dot com and they put together a radical
pop-up shop in Palm Beach, FL. Be on the lookout next for Italian, handmade belts via Matt Chevallard aka Matty #MostDope.

Best Accessories: Miansai
If you haven't seen a Miansai credit in a magazine, have you picked up a menswear publication in 2011? The coolest bracelet company on
 the planet keeps getting cooler. Looking for unique wristwear? Check out Miansai at Barneys, Bergdorf Goodman, Collette, Liberty,
Saturdays, and The Webster. What is Michael Saiger's latest stunt? He just released a 14K Gold iPhone Case, that retails for $10,000.